A great article on how everyone thinks MSM journalists are biased

Here's an excerpt from a wonderful piece that addresses the attack from right and left on the so-called mainstream media.
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People whose goal is to get rich don’t usually go to journalism school. The profession attracts an odd combination of cynics and save-the-worlders. Sometimes they’re even combined in one person. We worry a lot about gender and ethnic diversity but not so much about ideological diversity.

That’s because we’re supposed to have only one bias, and that’s for a good story. In telling those stories, we try to get as close to the truth as possible. But in chasing those stories — and, more importantly, in deciding which stories to chase — you bring along your own personal baggage. Your own experiences. What your friends think. Where you live. Where you go to church. If you go to church.

here's an excerpt of an excellent piece - while it does not deal with technology, it does deal in a direct and excellent way with how both left and right perceive bias in the "mainstream media."
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/kevinhorrigan/story/6815A511C8017FC38625710B002AC626?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22news%22+AND+%22media%22
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The News Media: Down by the old mainstream

By Kevin Horrigan

The whole concept of a neutral, unbiased press is a relatively new one. American journalism was highly partisan well into the 20th century. The notion of a professional press wasn’t codified until Walter Williams founded the University of Missouri journalism school in 1908.

Today, when everyone with a $500 computer and an Internet connection can be his own publisher, we’re headed back in